Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-03-04
Local News.

important public sale of Short Horn
cattle, by j. j. Ross e Sons, of this
city, will held on Wednesday next.
Sale to commence at l o'clock p. IN.
]. J. Hanscom & Co, proprietors of
the Mineral Point book store, have a
new advertisement in this issue of The
Democrat. Read it and learn the
specialties which Hanscom has to offer
for the spring trade of 1887.
BY an order Of the city council OF
Clinton, Iowa, every dog unaccompa-
MED by its owner, found running on the
public highway is to be Immediately
shot. The action was taken in con
sequence of John 7. Lanes death from
hydrophobia.
John j. Ross was over to his Beetown
mine last week and travelled by team
from Beetown to Lancaster and by
stage from Lancaster to Platteyille on
Saturday Although an old '"'forty-
Miner" he says that he never experience
ed rougher trip.
Calvert Spensley returned home from
Mississippi last week. He reports the
spring season in the south three weeks
earlier than last year. He says that in
Mississippi the blossoms have come
and gone. On his hpmeward trip he
did not see any snow until he came as
far north as Chicago.
Frank Day, of Blanchardvillc, was
among the callers at The Democrat
Office on Tuesday. Frank carries on a
blacksmith and wagon making bust
ness at Blanchardvilie. He is a good
workman and pleasant man to do
business with, and enjoys, as he de
serves, good run of work.
Last week solid steel chest was
placed in the new fire proof vault in
the First National Bank, and the large
safe heretofore used by the bank was
shipped to Chicago. The new vault
and chest will afford more room for
the safe keeping Of valuable papers
rs well as greater security for the cash
of stock holders and depositors. The
offices i'll the building are also being
re-arranged and improved.
G. X. Reading went over to James
vile this week and brought home the
two fine horses, Hopetoun and Carlton
Prince, which ne recently purchased of
Galbraith Bros. Hopetoun is a power
full fve-yea old Clyde, weighing over
1900 pounds, and Carlton Prince is a
magnificent three-year- English
Shire, weighing about 100 pounds,
They are both greatly admired by all
horsemen who have seen them.
IC is feared that the reports of the
unprecedented cold weather in Mon
tana, are but too true. 4 correSpon-
dent of The Farmer says that in con-
yersation with Ex-Gov. Hauser, he adj
mitted that after residence and eX-
perience of over twenty years in the
territ Dry, he had never before known
anything to at all approach the severity
of the present winter. They have had
more continued cold and stormy wealth
er than has ever been known in the
cattle history of Montana. This, coup
led with deep snow fall, which has
been general throughout the territory,
is creating dreadful havoc among the
herds. The ex-governor gave it as his
opinion that the loss in cattle would
reach four hundred thousand head, if
not more.
Nearly all of the insane of Iowa
county have been placed in the new
asylum. Last week the superinten-
dents of the poor and the oyerseer of
the county farm removed from Ian
caster the following named patients,
who heretofore We're cared for at the
Grant county asylum: Catharine Egan,
Maria Public, Martha ArnoldSon, Eliza
beth j. Jackson, Lorenzo Public, Allie
Bergin and John Blades. The county
has now tifty-one patients, and of these
forty three are at the new asylum,
while eight are being treated at the
Mendoza hospital. The care of one
patient, John Durkin, now ut Mendoza,
is to be assumed by the state, rs it has
been proven that he is a citizen of Da-
kota. This will make the number of
insane persons properly belonging to
Iowa county fifty, instead of tifty-one.
Two of the saloon keepers of this
place were brought up before W. H
Curry, justice of the peace, last week
on the complaint of chief of police, W
J. Healy, for violating the city ordi
nance by keeping their saloons oper
on sunday Both pleaded guilty, anG
We're fined ten dollars each, and costs
The Democrat understands that 1t il
the intention of the chief of police &c
make complaint against any saloon
keeper who allows persons to enter his
place of business, regardless of whether
any liquor is sold or not. The Demo.
carat hopes that there Will be no neces
sity for any further arrests. All per
sons ought to respect the law, an6
those who persist in violating it should
be dealt with summarily. We notice
that in several places such laws arr
enforced by taking away the license o.
the offenders, and it seems NOR,
effective way than making arrests an,
| imposing fines upon the guilty parties
Now comes the report that the Chi
cago, Milwaukee X st. Paul railroad i
to make its main line between Chicag,
and St Paul run through Rockford
The Rockford Register claims that i
has received information from a gen
tleman high up in the counsels of tbs
| railroad which indicates that this is
sure thing. The plan in brief is t
run To Rockford via Davis Junction
thence to Roekton as at present. Build
ing from Rockton to Brodhead; the,
over the Albany branch, and buildin;
from Albany to Lone Rock: from Rich
land Center to Niroqua: then usin.
the Viroqua branch to Sparta, and oil
to Lacrosse and st. Paul. This VII
reduce the distance between Chicag
and st. Paul about 81 miles, and vii
enable this road to vie with the Illinoi
Central and b. X n. 1t is said tina
work is to be commenced, according {
this plan, by spring and that the super
| intendent and chief officers of the ne'
line have already been picked out :
still further improvement on this ne'
line would be to come by the way o
Mineral Point, and from thence to Lon
Roek by way Of Doduayiila - TIL